Sri Krishna Kathamrita

Bindu Issue 563

The Paradox of Divine Loving Anger, part 4

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 Sri Krishna Kathamrita
तवकथामृतं तप्तजीवनम्
tava kathāmṛtaṁ tapta-jīvanam
Bindu
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Issue No. 563 Śrī Paramā Ekādaśī 23 December 2023

• Transcendental Anger
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Highlights

• Beggar of Prema part 3

Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja

• The Parrot’s Secret

Raghunandan Goswami
• Sulkiness and Remorse
The Medieval Gaudiya Poet Balaram Das

T ranscendental A nger

His Divine Grace

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
As far as māna, or anger, is concerned, there is the
following incident described in Gīta-govinda: “When
Srimati Radharani saw Krishna enjoying himself in
the company of several other gopīs, she became a
little jealous because her special prestige was being
dimmed. Therefore, she immediately left the scene
and took shelter in a nice flower bush where the black
drones were humming. Then, hiding herself behind
the creepers, she began to express her sorrow to one
of her consorts.” This is an instance of a seeming
disagreement. (From Nectar of Devotion chapter 44)
Radha Complains about Krishna
There is a statement in the Vidagdha-mādhava
wherein Srimati Radharani, in an angry mood,
Unknown photographer

addressed Paurnamasi after she had accused Radharani

of going to Krishna. “My dear mother,” Radha declared,
“what can I say to you? Krishna is so cruel that he often
attacks me on the street, and if I want to cry out very
loudly, this boy with a peacock feather on his head

Cover: Krishna in the dress of a yogi-sannyāsī tries to pacify the loving anger of Radharani. Unknown artist.
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Unknown artist. Punjab Hills, Himachal Pradesh.

Krishna fixes Radharani's belt

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Unknown artist.
Trying to pacify her anger at him, Krishna serves the lotus feet of Srimati Radharani
immediately covers my face so that I cannot cry. And
if I want to go away from the scene because I am afraid
of him, he will immediately spread his arms to block
my path. If I piteously fall down at his feet, then this
enemy of the Madhu demon, in an angry mood, bites
my face! Mother, just try to understand my situation,
and don’t be unnecessarily angry with me. Instead,
please tell me how I can save myself from these terrible
attacks of Krishna!” (From Nectar of Devotion chapter 47)
Ecstatic Anger is a Symptom of Love
Sometimes among contemporary personalities there
are signs of ecstasy in anger because of love for Krishna.
श्रीकृष्णकथामृत बिन् दु
An example of such anger was exhibited in a quarrel
between Jatila and Mukhara. Jatila was the mother-in-
law of Radharani, and Mukhara was her grandmother.
Both of them were talking about Krishna’s unnecessary
harassment of Radharani when she was walking on
the street. Jatila said, “You cruel-faced Mukhara! By
hearing your words my heart feels like it is burning
in a fire!” And Mukhara replied, “You sinful Jatila, by
hearing your words, there is aching in my head! You
cannot give any evidence that Krishna has attacked
Radharani, the daughter of my daughter Kirtida.”
Once, when Radharani was taking off the necklace
given to her by Krishna, Jatila, her mother-in-law,
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Krishna puts his head on Radharani's feet
told a friend, “My dear friend, just see the beautiful
necklace that Krishna has presented to Radharani.
She is now holding it, but still she wants to tell us
that she has no connection with Krishna. This girl’s
activities have disgraced our whole family!”
[However] Natural jealousy of Krishna by persons
like Sisupal cannot be accepted as ecstatic love in anger
with Krishna. (From Nectar of Devotion chapter 47)
B eggar of P rema
Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja
Part 3
Part 2 concluded with the story of how Krishna disguised
himself as a sannyāsī who could tell the fortune of Srimati
Radharani, and thus he gained entrance to Radharani’s
kuñja where he revealed his Shyamasundar form. Gour
Govinda Maharaj continued:
Krishna-lila — Gaura-lila
That is what Raya Ramananda saw when
Mahaprabhu showed him his real form:
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Unknown artist.
pahile dekhiluṅ tomāra sannyāsi-svarūpa
ebe tomā dekhi muñi śyāma-gopa-rūpa
Ramananda Raya told Lord Sri Chaitanya: At first I saw
you appear like a sannyāsī, but now I am seeing you as
Shyamasundar, the cowherd boy. (Cc. madhya 8. 268)
Raya Ramananda saw Shyamasundar. As soon as the
sannyāsī form disappeared, Krishna’s Shyamasundar
form appeared. Raya Ramananda is Vishakha sakhī in
vraja-līlā, so he has seen these things.
tomāra sammukhe dekhi kāñcana-pañcālikā
tāṅra gaura-kāntye tomāra sarva aṅga ḍhākā
I saw you appearing like a golden doll, and your
entire body appeared to be covered by a golden
lustre. (Cc. madhya 8.269)
tāhāte prakaṭa dekhoṅ sa-vaṁśī vadana
nānā bhāve cañcala tāhe kamala-nayana
Now I see that you are holding a flute to your mouth
and your lotus eyes are moving very restlessly due to
various ecstasies. (Cc. madhya 8.270)
Krishna told Srimati, “O Radhe, you are kṛṣṇa-āhlādinī.
All your līlās are meant for my pleasure. You don’t want to
touch the body of anyone but me. Similarly, I don’t want to
touch the body of any lady but you, Radhe. Sometimes I go
to Chandravali’s kuñja just to heighten your vāmya-bhāva.
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Painting by Navya Agrawal
Krishna dressed himself as a sannyāsī beggar
Thereby your leftist mood is heightened, and I get
some pleasure out of it. Now the highest mood has
been expressed today. I could not find any other means
to break your sulkiness. Therefore, I put on this
sannyāsa-veśa and became a beggar, prema-bhikṣārī.”
Previously, when Radharani was crying, Lalita told
Krishna, “One day you’ll have to cry like that!” And so
now he is always crying in the form of Mahaprabhu.
Indebted
This is how Krishna has to cry. Krishna has to cry
and become a sannyāsī, begging for rādhā-prema, the
love of Radharani. “Otherwise I cannot pay back the
debt — na pāraye, na pāraye.” Krishna says. “I have
become indebted.”
na pāraye ’haṁ niravadya-saṁyujāṁ
sva-sādhu-kṛtyaṁ vibudhāyuṣāpi vaḥ
yā mābhajan durjaya-geha-śṛṅkhalāḥ
saṁvṛścya tad vaḥ pratiyātu sādhunā
O gopīs, I am not able to repay my debt for your spot-
less service, even within a lifetime of Lord Brahma.
श्रीकृष्णकथामृत बिन् दु
Your connection with me is beyond reproach. You have
worshiped me, cutting off all domestic ties, which are
difficult to break. Therefore, please let your own glori-
ous deeds be your compensation. (Bhāg. 10.32.22)
Here, Krishna says, “I cannot pay back the debt. O
gopīs, you have such love for me that you broke all
rules and regulations, all Vedic regulative principles.
At the dead of night you have come running to me.”
This is rāgānugā-bhakti, no rules and regulations.
So Krishna has become indebted. And to pay
back this debt he came in the form of a sannyāsī. A
completely different form; not bent in three places,
no nice curling hair. Now his head is shaved, his
yellow garment is saffron color, and he is begging for
rādhā-prema. That is rādhā-bhāva. He had to come in
this sannyāsa form, otherwise he could not pay back
the debt. Now Krishna is moving in that form, which
is the combination of Radha and Krishna, rasarāja-
mahā-bhāva. That is Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
— From chapter 2 of The Embankment of Separation. Bhubaneswar.
Gopal Jiu Publications. 1998.
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Painting by Kshitindranath Mazumdar. West Bengal. 1891-1975

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu having darśana of Lord Jagannath from beside the Garuda Stambha
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Radharani's parrot
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The ancient deity of Suryadev at Suryakund in Vraja is actually Krishna
T he P arrot ' s S ecret
From Śrī Rādha-mādhavodaya
by Raghunandan Goswami
Raghunandan Goswami was born in the Nityananda Vamsa
in Maro village in the Barddhaman district of West Bengal in
the late seventeenth century. He made a notable contribution
to the field of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava literature and attained
widespread fame by writing the following works: Śrī Gaura-
pada-taraṅgiṇī (see excerpts in Bindu 271), Gaurāṅga-
virudāvalī (see Bindu 297) Gaurāṅga-campū; Rāma-
rasāyana: Rādhā-dāmodara Kavya; Gītā-mālā; Deśika-
nirṇaya; Saṁśaya-śatāni ṭīkā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam;
and the Vyākhyāna-mañjarī ṭīkā on Chando-mañjarī.
The gopī Chandravali had a pet parrot whom she
found to be far too talkative and who sometimes told
her lies as well, which she found annoying. Finally, she
asked her friend Padma to release the parrot from its
cage. Padma did that, and after flying here and there
for some time, the parrot arrived at Radha’s palace.
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Unknown photographer
Lalita began feeding the parrot pomegranate
seeds and stroking it. While fondling the bird,
it suddenly started repeating some things that
Krishna had said to Chandravali, “I will meet you
tomorrow for kālī-pūjā at the Kali temple.” Lalita
and the others are aghast, and at once left for the
Sun temple where Krishna had promised to meet
Radha. Arriving there, Lalita, Vishakha, and Radha
discover Krishna’s friend, the Brahmin boy Madhu,
sitting alone. Lalita smiles and asks Madhu where
his friend is? Madhu replies, as he was taught to by
Krishna, that he has gone in search of a stray cow,
and as such he may be somewhat delayed. Lalita says
that she had already heard from Chandravali that
he will accompany her for kālī-pūjā. Madhu says that
Chandravali did her pūjā at dawn that morning and
will surely have returned back home by now. Lalita
says she will go the Kali temple anyway, to which
Madhu says she need not make a futile journey,
besides, continues Madhu, Chandravali is our sworn
rival and it is not proper that we even see her face.
Despite Madhu’s attempts, Lalita and Vishakha go to
the Durga temple (leaving Radha and Madhu at the
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Painting by by Nilambari Dasi. https://nilambaridasi.wordpress.com/

Srimati Radharani

Sun temple) where Krishna is immersed in dalliance
with Chandravali. Krishna disappears into another
kuñja (without being seen by them) and Lalita and
Vishakha approach Chandravali and ask her if she is
waiting for a pūjārī to conduct her pūjā? Lalita then
sees that Chandravali is wearing the flower garland
that Radha had carefully made for Krishna the night
before, and also notices Krishna’s footprints, and
the swarms of bees buzzing around his footprints.
This upsets them, and they leave for the Sun temple.
Krishna soon arrives at the Sun temple and attempts
to say that he was away looking for a cow and has
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now arrived for their sūrya-pūjā. Lalita tells Radha
how Chandravali was wearing the garland she had
made for Krishna and Radha leaves in a state of
māna. Krishna now asks Madhu how he can break
Radha’s māna, and Madhu suggests that he disguise
himself as the female pūjārī called Sumati. Krishna,
now in disguise, approaches Abhimanyu and says
that his chaste wife must be upset with him, for at
the end of the sūrya-pūjā she did not bestow upon
him her customary loving embrace, or sit with him
for a while and exchange some friendly words.
Krishna then gives Abhi a necklace asking him to
give it to Radha, confiding that he hopes she is not
upset with him. Abhi is shocked to hear of Radha’s
discourteous behaviour and personally escorts
Krishna into Radha’s chamber and asks Radha why
she did not lovingly embrace the yogini; further
adding that Sumati should spend the night with
Radha. Abhi leaves and goes to the goshala, and
Krishna decorates Srimati Radharani's lotus feet
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Radha, Lalita, Vishakha and Sumati enter the
inner chambers. When Sumati askes Radha for
a loving embrace, Lalita tells him to go the Kali
temple and embrace Chandravali, who wears
Radha’s garland. Lalita then brings the parrot
who recites what Krishna had said about meeting
Chandravali at the Kali temple which causes
Radha to burst into tears. Krishna then falls at
Radha’s feet and begs forgiveness saying that
it breaks his heart to see her sad and indignant
countenance; and eventually succeeds in wiping
Radha’s tears away with the border of his own
cloth as he tells Radha that although she is as
soft and pleasing as the lotus, māna has made her
heart as hard as a thunderbolt. Radha is consoled,
and on the pretext of picking flowers they all
enter the sweet-scented love bowers.”
— Raghunandana Goswami. Śrī Śrī Rādhā-mādhavodaya. Published by
Niradachandra Chakravarti. Kolkata. 1312 Sal. (1905 CE) Bengali.
Unknown artist. Himachal Pradesh, ca. 1760
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Unknown artist. ca. 1780 -1790_Punjab Hills

Under the stormy skies of Radharani's sulky anger, one of her intimate girlfriends tries to pacify her
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S ulkiness

Unknown artist. Pahari early 19th century

and R emorse

māna o kalahāntaritā
The Medieval Gauḍīya Poet Balaram Das
For more about the poet Balaram Das, see Bindu issue 562.
sundari aba tuhuṅ tejasi kāna
sukhamaya keli nikuñje yaba paiṭhabi
taba kāhāṅ rākhabi māna

[A sakhi speaks to Srimati Radharani:] O Sundari,

all beautiful one, you have disowned Krishna! Now Some of Radha's intimate gopīs try to placate her anger
when you stay in your all-pleasing kuñja, how will has entered there. You are singing about all the faults
your purpose be fulfilled? of Krishna instead of his virtues. It seems that there
iha nāgara-bara rasika-kalā-guru is not even a drop of compassion left in this place!
caraṇa pākaḍi gaḍi yāya iha alakhī yaba tohe chāḍi yāntaba
laghutara dokhahiṅ rokha bāḍhāyasi taba guṇa-gaṇa soṅarāba
caraṇahiṅ ṭhelasi tāya roi puna hāmāri bāhu dhari sādhabi
The great hero Krishna, who is the guru of all rasas, taba koī niyaḍa nā yāba

is now holding your lotus feet, crying and rolling in the When this misfortune will leave you, then you will
dust. You have become too angry over a small offense. remember the qualities of Krishna. Then you will cry,
prema-lachimi hiya choḍala bujhi aba holding my arms, and no one will take you closer to him.
māna-alakhi parabeśa sahacari etahuṅ bacana nāhi śūnaye
guṇa bichūrāi dokha saba ghoṣa-i
ārati choḍāyala deśa kope bharala saba aṅga
kaha balarāma camaka moha lāgala
Prema-lakshmi, the source of all fortune, has left your
sakhika bacana bhela bhaṅga
heart, and sulky anger, the source of all misfortune,
Not listening to these words of her sakhī, all Radharani’s
limbs became full of anger. Balaram Das says, “That sakhī
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Lalita tries to calm Radha's anger